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The northernmost reaches of the Canadian Prairies are less dense in population, marked by forests and more variable topography. [3] If the region is defined to include areas only covered by prairie land, the corresponding region is known as the Interior Plains . [ 4 ]
Topo map NTS 82J9 Turner Valley Okotoks Erratic (also known as either Big Rock or, in Blackfoot , as Okotok ) is a 16,500-tonne (18,200-ton) boulder that lies on the otherwise flat, relatively featureless, surface of the Canadian Prairies in Alberta .
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. [28] These provinces are partially covered by grasslands, plains, and lowlands, mostly in the southern regions.
In Canada, it encompasses the Canadian Prairies separating the Canadian Rockies from the Canadian Shield, as well as the Boreal Plains and Taiga Plains east of the Mackenzie and Richardson Mountains; while in the United States, it includes the Great Plains of the West/Midwest and the tallgrass prairie region to the south of the Great Lakes ...
The Souris River is the primary tributary contributing flow to the Assiniboine in this reach. Near Portage la Prairie the river emerges from the delta reach onto the relatively flat Red River plain (the floor of former Glacial Lake Agassiz) and at this point it can flow in any direction from roughly northwest to roughly southeast.
The Hudson Bay drainage basin is the drainage basin in northern North America where surface water empties into the Hudson Bay [1] and adjoining waters. Spanning an area of about 3,861,400 square kilometres (1,490,900 sq mi) and with a mean discharge of about 30,900 m 3 /s (1,090,000 cu ft/s), [2] the basin is almost entirely within Canada.
Map of Palliser's Triangle. Canadian section of the Missouri Coteau. The Missouri Coteau, or Missouri Plateau, (French: Coteau du Missouri) is a large plateau that stretches along the eastern side of the valley of the Missouri River in central North Dakota and north-central South Dakota in the United States.
In Alberta, there were 51 water shortage advisories in place in December 2023. [2] Rarely has drought been as serious or extensive as the 1999-2004 episode. [3] This was the worst drought for at least a hundred years in parts of the Canadian Prairies.